Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration

Gil S. Epstein; Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and thus creating illegal migration. -- illegal immigration ; foreign worker ; minimum wages

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Epstein, Gil S. ; Heizler, Odelia
Publisher:	Bonn : IZA
Subject:	Arbeitsmigranten \| Migrant workers \| Arbeitsnachfrage \| Labor demand \| Schwarzarbeit \| Moonlighting \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Mindestlohn \| Minimum wage \| Rechtsdurchsetzung \| Law enforcement \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. 7220
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/71617 [Handle]
Classification:	J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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